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Sergeant Bernard Hugh Cassidy

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Military service

Service number: R/78841
Age: 23
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: May 25, 1918 St. Thomas, Ontario
Enlistment: December 18, 1940 Ontario
Death: February 6, 1942 Aston Down, United Kingdom

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. E. Grave 61.
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Son of Hugh John Cassidy and Kathleern Ryan, stepson of Norah Beatrice Pavey, of St. Thomas, Ontario.

He served as private with the 2nd Elgins Regiment – NPAM – under NRMA 1940, service number A-420839, from October 9 to November 7, 1940, during a training session at camp number 11.

He had service in Canada and in Great Britain. He had 416 days of service, including 133 days overseas. He was killed when his Spitfire collided midair with another plane.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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WOODCHESTER (CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION) CHURCHYARD Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

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